R4D Social Exclusion

Young People’s Sexual Health: A Framework for Policy Debate

Wed, 02 May 2012 04:41 GMT

Document Type: Journal Article
Creator: Campbell, C.; Aggleton, P.

Production Year: 1999

Citation: Campbell, C.; Aggleton, P. Young People’s Sexual Health: A Framework for Policy Debate. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (1999) 8 (4) 249-262.

Summary: This paper seeks to stimulate debate about policy directions for sexual health promotion for youth. The authors first examine the reasons why some young people might be more at risk than others for sexual health problems, highlighting a number of the structural and environmental factors that can contribute to young people’s sexuality-related risks and vulnerabilities. They then propose ways that policy-makers might help to reduce these risks not just by improving access to high quality information and services but also by creating health-enabling environments that facilitate young people’s efforts to protect and enhance their sexual health. In this context, they pay particular attention to the impact of home, community, and macro-social factors (e.g., poverty, discrimination, social exclusion) on the sexual behaviour of youth.

Extreme Poor Adivasis and the Problem of Accessing Social Safety Nets. Briefing Paper.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:19 GMT

Document Type: Briefing
Creator: NETZ Bangladesh

Production Year: 2011

Citation: NETZ Bangladesh. Extreme Poor Adivasis and the Problem of Accessing Social Safety Nets. Briefing Paper. (2011) 5 pp.

Summary: This Briefing Paper is based on Shiree Working Paper No. 4. It summarises the findings and recommendations from a study exploring the factors behind the extremely poor Adivasis’ (meaning indigenous people) scarce access to government-funded social safety nets (SSNs).

Extreme Poor Adivasis and the Problem of Accessing Social Safety Nets. Shiree Working Paper No. 4.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:36 GMT

Document Type: Working Paper
Creator: Zakir Hossain

Production Year: 2011

Citation: Zakir Hossain Extreme Poor Adivasis and the Problem of Accessing Social Safety Nets. Shiree Working Paper No. 4. Shiree, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2011) 38 pp.

Summary: Under the auspices of AMADER Project, this study was conducted in two unions of the high Barind area in Naogaon District in Bangladesh. Efforts were made to explore the factors behind the extremely poor Adivasis’ (meaning indigenous people) scarce access to government-funded social safety nets. Quantitative analysis reveals that the number of recipients of SSNs is small in the two studied Unions – Shapahar and Goala – standing at 3 at out of 74 deserving Beneficiary Households (BHHs) and 4 out of 65 deserving BHHs respectively.

Three key problems define Adivasis’ exclusion from SSNs– their exclusion from information, the fact that they are not considered politically important, and the on-going cultural labelling of Adivasis as ‘underserving poor’. With the view to identifying solutions to improve the SSN coverage of the extremely poor Adivasis, recommendations have been drawn from the interviews with gate-keepers and informants.

Looking beyond the industrial cluster : the impacts of a south Indian garment cluster on rural livelihoods

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:26 GMT

Document Type: Briefing
Creator: Carswell, G.; Heyer, J.; Neve, G. de.

Production Year: 2010

Citation: Carswell, G.; Heyer, J.; Neve, G. de. Looking beyond the industrial cluster : the impacts of a south Indian garment cluster on rural livelihoods. School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (2010) 4 pp.

Summary: This briefing explores the effects of the garment export industry in Tamil Nadu, south India, on the livelihoods of people living in the region, whether working for the industry or not. It describes both direct and indirect impacts through a tightening of the labour market. It considers how caste and gender shape people’s access to different employment opportunities, as well as wage differentials.

Annotated Bibliography on ‘Exploring a ‘social contract’ approach to the politics of poverty reduction’. CPRC Working Paper No. 217.

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:00 GMT

Document Type: Working Paper
Creator: Hawkins, J.

Production Year: 2011

Citation: CPRC Working Paper No. 217, Chronic Poverty Research Centre, London, UK, ISBN: 978-1-908536-14-3, 82 pp.

Summary:

A significant aspect to emerge from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre’s (CPRC) work on ‘Adverse Incorporation and Social Exclusion’ has been the use of the term social contract as an approach for the provision of pro-poor politics. Commissioned by the CPRC, this annotated bibliography explores first the literature based on traditional accounts of the social contract, and second those works from a development studies perspective which employ the concept of a social contract. The annotated bibliography focuses in particular on the following areas:

general research on social contract theory;
approaches and critiques of social contract theory;
social contract theory from a strategy and policy perspective, including citizenship, conflict, economic growth, welfare provision and taxation.

Living on the margins: the social dynamics of economic marginalisation

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:37 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: du Toit, A.

Production Year: 2008

Citation: Development Southern Africa (2008) 25 (2) 135-150 [DOI: 10.1080/03768350802090493]

Summary: This paper introduces the key concepts and focus of a special issue of Development Southern Africa on the social dynamics of economic marginalisation. It emphasises the importance of the rise of 'second economy' discourse in South Africa, but warns against its implicit dualism: persistent poverty can flow not simply from disconnection but also from adverse incorporation. The contributions collected in this special issue highlight the diversity of ways the poor may be connected, disconnected or incorporated. The paper considers these ways and distinguishes between a number of different concepts of marginality. It also argues that the case studies presented in these papers show that policy-makers should beware of nave or overly optimistic assumptions about the benefits of 'integrating' poor people into broader economic systems within which they have little leverage.

Social exclusion and adverse incorporation in rural Bangladesh: evidence from a mixed-methods study of poverty dynamics. CPRC Working Paper 193.

Fri, 27 May 2011 08:51 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: Davis, P.

Production Year: 2011

Citation: Davis, P. Social exclusion and adverse incorporation in rural Bangladesh: evidence from a mixed-methods study of poverty dynamics. CPRC Working Paper 193. Chronic Poverty Research Centre, London, UK (2011) 31 pp. ISBN 978-1-906433-65-9

Summary: Using findings from a mixed-methods study of poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh, including from 293 life history interviews, the paper explores how the alternative stance of viewing poverty dynamics from a social exclusion/adverse incorporation perspective can complement more conventional ways of exploring poverty dynamics. While there are obvious problems with labelling the one third of the population of Bangladesh who live below the poverty line as socially excluded, the insights from social exclusion/ adverse incorporation debates are nevertheless useful for a process-oriented examination of the causes of chronic poverty. The paper focuses on two areas of life: marriage and dowry, and health and medical care. It explores these using insights from social exclusion/ adverse incorporation debates to discuss how multiple, relational and categorical processes cause disadvantage for some people. In both of these spheres of life, gender appears as a key axis of social exclusion/adverse incorporation, and gender, socio-economic status, and access to other power-resources are intertwined. The more multidimensional, relational and dynamic view of poverty, as opposed to a conventional focus on individual or household economic status measured at one point in time, helps to draw attention to social mechanisms that support or hinder social mobility. Thus the perspective provides a complementary way of thinking about causation in poverty research, particularly drawing attention to those causes associated with, what Charles Tilly referred to as, categorical inequality (Tilly, 1999).

Performing participatory citizenship : politics and power in Kerala’s Kudumbashree programme.

Mon, 23 May 2011 04:06 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: WilliamsG.; Bhattacharyya, D.; Thampi, B. V.; Narayana, D.; Nandigama, S.

Production Year: 2011

Citation: WilliamsG.; Bhattacharyya, D.; Thampi, B. V.; Narayana, D.; Nandigama, S. Performing Participatory Citizenship – Politics and Power in Kerala'sKudumbashreeProgramme. Journal of Development Studies (2011) 47 (8) 1261-1280. [DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2010.527949]

Summary: This article is accepted for publication (expected publication date Autumn 2011) – copies available on request from the author (glyn.williams@sheffield.ac.uk).

Managing political space : party practices, marginalised people's agency and the governance of West Bengal.

Mon, 23 May 2011 04:02 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: Williams, G.; Bhattacharyya, D.; Thampi, B.; Nandigama, S.; Narayana, D.

Production Year: 2011

Citation: Williams, G.; Bhattacharyya, D.; Thampi, B.; Nandigama, S.; Narayana, D. Managing political space : party practices, marginalised people's agency and the governance of West Bengal. University of Sheffield, UK (2011).

Summary: This article has been submitted to a journal and is under review – copies available on request from the author (glyn.williams@sheffield.ac.uk).

The politics of defining and alleviating poverty : state strategies and their impacts in rural Kerala.

Mon, 23 May 2011 03:58 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: Williams, G.; Narayana, D.; Nandigama, S.; Thampi, B. V.; Bhattacharyya, D.

Production Year: 2011

Citation: Williams, G.; Narayana, D.; Nandigama, S.; Thampi, B. V.; Bhattacharyya, D. The politics of defining and alleviating poverty : state strategies and their impacts in rural Kerala. University of Sheffield, UK. (2011)

Summary: This article has been submitted to a journal and is under review – copies available on request from the author (glyn.williams@sheffield.ac.uk).